Tag: Creative Commons

Museums and the Digital Enclosure of the Public Domain

John Constable (1776–1837), Ploughing Scene in Suffolk, Oil on canvas, England, 1824-25, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1977.14.41., CC0

‘Unbounded freedom ruled the wandering sceneNor fence of ownership crept in betweenTo hide the prospect of the following eyeIts only bondage was the circling sky.’John Clare, The Moors In the…

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Schrödinger’s copyright

Author’s remix of The Battle of the Pictures, 1745. William Hogarth (1697-1764), Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0

Why are there so few open access museums in the UK?

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After THJ v Sheridan

How will the ruling in THJ v Sheridan on copyright and the threshold of originality in UK law affect cultural institutions?

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